Triangle Waist's Eyewitness At The Triangle

On March 25, 1911, a notoriously dangerous fire broke out in the Asch Building of the Triangle Waist Company causing great destruction and many lost lives. As stated in “Eyewitness at the Triangle,” I heard screams around the corner and hurried there. What I had seen before was not so terrible as what had followed. Up in the [ninth] floor girls were burning to death before our very eyes.” In such a short period of time, all the hard labor people did during their period of work went to waste as it was all in flames. Broken bodies were lying limp on the floor as the boy stated and those that were helping each other escape the fire were put at even greater risk themselves. Sudden life decision making for hundreds of innocent children, workers, adults, etc. of whether …show more content…
However, the company did not give and offer enough to help repair their facility and for the destructive fire that occurred. They only offered a weeks’ worth of money for each family who had suffered losses but only a weeks’ worth of money isn’t nearly enough to what the family has endured. If the company actually attempted to put some effort into truly repairing the company and helping people in the process, they would increase wages for the workers that survived. For regarding if the company felt responsible for the fire, they were apathetic and for the most part, dishonest. They didn’t mention any information about the status of the building until the fire happened and they admitted that the building was not fireproof. Also, for families who suffered tragic losses, their payment given to them by the company was very scant. When associating with families, their overall apologies did nothing for them and that just shows how much of a failure the company was with their own employees. Clearly, the company is irresponsible and one way or another, an event like this was going to